The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-25


100000 was for monument $50 feet high,
but the association have adopted plans Tor
one $50 feet high, to cost $4,000, their
guaranteed fund amounting to $4,000. The
conference resulted in approval of the plans,
provided the consent OF the national gov
eminent shall be obtained to the change.
If that is not gained, the plans for the lesser
altitude will be adopted.
In General.
GLADSTONE will not visit America.
Ex-MAyoR A. PALMER of Boston is dead.
OVER 900 emigrants arrived at New York
last Friday.
QUEEN KAPIoLAN1's jaunt in Boston cost
the Hub $4,000.
RIoToUs demonstrations by strikers are
reported in Belgium.
O'BRIEN was well received in Ottawa, but
was mobbed at Kingston.
THE prevailing drought in Minnesota and
Dakota imperils the wheat crop.
THERE were twenty-nine cases of small
pox reported in New York last week.
THE Sultan of Turkey has established two
schools for women at Constantinople.
REV. w. f. DAVIS has been fined $50 and
costs for preaching on Boston Common.
NJ. DE FREYcrNcr having declined to
| form a cabinet, Rouvier has been invited to
| do so.
A RATHER violent shock of earthquake
was felt at Monte Carlo at eight O'Clock
| Friday.
A FIRE in the Washington Mills at Law
renee, Mass, did damage amounting to
$4,000
THERE are persistent stories of prepare
tons for the use of dynamite in England by
| the Irish.
FIERCE gales have prevailed and great
damage has been done in various parts of
England.
DIR. EDMUND F. A. VuLP1AN, the eminent
French physician, died Thursday at the age
! of SiXty-one.
THE city of Cannon Falls, Mimi, was al
most entirely destroyed by fire Friday.
Loss S260OO0.
The government will soon make an effort
to substitute paper currency for gold in the
| Pacific States.
ABOUT $4,000 acres of the largest forest
tract in eastern Massachusetts have been
devastated by fire.
THE Connecticut legislature has passed
bill rendering women eligible to local
boards of education.
THE Key West (Fla) board of health have
officially announced the appearance of
case of yellow fever
A GENERAL exodus of public officials from
Washington, on account of the heat is ex-
pected in few days.
MAJOR Den. IERLEH GOORE, WHO mas
been seriously sick at Washington for some
days, is much better.
THE French ministry was defeated on the
question of retrenchment by vote of 275 to
259 and then resigned.
The Oldest living member of the United
States supreme court is Justice Miller. He
was appointed in 1862.
GREAT excitement exists in Reading, Pa,
over the collapse of the Equitable Marriage
| Insurance Association.
ANOTHER plot to assassnate the Gar is
said to have been discovered and several
arrests have been made.
AN extensive factory at Erie, Pa, was
destroyed by the ignition of natural gas and
two men lost their lives.
JUDGE SAMUEL w. WILLIAMS of Arkansas
is pushed for the vacancy on the United
States supreme court bench.
JOHN B. FINCH, chairman of the national
committee of the prohibition party, is going
to Texas to stump the state.
THE President has appointed Major j. l..
Rathbone of California to be consul-general
of the United States at Paris.
THE supreme court is understood to be
opposed to the appointment of Attorney
general Garland on the bench.
MICHAEL HAMMOND, a railroad conductor,
lost his life near Wilkesbarre, Pa, in saving
those of a woman and her child.
STORIES of eviction in the Pennsylvania
coal regions, which are very like those which
come from Ireland are given ont.
THE late Washington c. DePauw of In
diana bequeathed some 900 for edu-
cational and benevolent purposes.
THE police returns show that in one day
eleven persons in Berlin committed suicide
or attempted to take their own lives.
Mr.. O'BRIEN, the Irish patriot, was stoned
| in the streets of Toronto, and two of his
friends were injured by the missiles.
SECRETARY FAIRCHILD has called in all
outstanding three per cents, amounting to
S170OO,0O0 The call natures July l.
ABOUT 25,0OO,OOO acres of land are to be
taken by the government from western rail-
| roads and thrown open to settlement.
THE five men who took the most promi-
nent part in the plot to assassinate the Gar
on March Is were executed last week
THE California Fruit Union shipped to
| Chicago. last week, the first carload of cher
ries of this season. The rate was $500.
WILLIAM SMITH, who had been a congress-
man, governor of Virginia and major-gen-
eral in the rebel army, is dead, aged 80.
HoUGHToN, MIFFLIN & Co.'s rooms on
Park street, Boston, have been burned out
Valuable manuscripts were not injured.
WILLIAM E. KIssELBERG, managing edi-
tor of the Troy Times and one of the pro-
prietors, died Friday of Bright's disease.
THREE men and several mules engaged in
blowing were struck by lightning from a
clear sky near Cairo, III. One man died.
A LARGE amount of arsenic has been
found in the stomach of DR.. Davis of Wake
field, Mass, who died suddenly last week.
SAYLEs & NICHoLL s mill in Pascoag, r. l.,
was nearly destroyed by fire Friday, and
175 persons are thrown out of employment.
THE Michigan senate has passed the IRON
clad oleomargarine bill, making it a mis-
demeanor to manufacture the commodity in
Michigan.
Mr.. SCOTT, deputy United States
marshal was shot and killed in the court
house in Ellvinton, Ky. The assailant is
not known.
THE people of Columbia, S. c., expressed
so much opposition TO George w. Cable
that his proposed lecture there has been
abandoned
THE Charleston, S, c., chamber of COM
merce has adopted resolutions asking for
the immediate enforcement of the interstate
commerce bill.
SEVERAL of the largest slaughter
in South San Francisco were burned last
week. Many sheep, hogs and cattle per-
ished. Loss 500 900.
A FIRE started in Nicholson's drugstore
at Hillsboro Texas, and destroyed $780,
600 worth OF property before it was extin-
guished. Insurance $4,000.
THE United States Express Company's
stable in Jersey City was partly burned Sun